On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:52:34PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 12/09/2010 10:27 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > I sponsored an uploaded of yaboot to testing-proposed-updates with the > > following changes to fix RC bugs: > > > > yaboot (1.3.13a-1squeeze1) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low > > . > > * Team upload. > > * Get scsi, sata, and firewire drive info from sysfs as legacy /proc/scsi > > interface does not exist anymore. > > (Closes: #572869, #377097, #342833, #289201) > > * Use persistent device naming symlinks, UUID and LABEL tags instead of > > unix block device names. (Closes: #580455) > > * debian/copyright: Add copyright notice from ofpath. > > > > The package has to go thourgh t-p-u because there is a newer upstream > > version > > already uploaded to sid. > > I'm ok to approve this upload but I prefer to have an ack from Otavio (or > boot folks) first. > > (CC'ing Otavio and -boot).
Of course if the new version currently in unstable that many people have asked for for years was used instead, a huge number of newer powerpc machines might actually work with Debian. 1.3.13a is simply useless for most modern powerpc machines. I had to move to grub2 instead with much manual tweaking and debuging (with upstream help) to get a working bootloader for squeeze. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101210220725.gt12...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
